Rural white conservatives are far and away the most over-represented voters...

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Scott Lemieux
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Rural white conservatives are far and away the most over-represented voters in any major liberal democracy, and their political identities are still oriented around the assumption that they have no say in who governs them

Bill Grueskin
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This quote from a Republican voter in Wyoming (population 581,000, with the same number of senators as California, population 39 million) is quite something.
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3:14 PM · Aug 16, 2022

The dumbing down of America really had been effective for the GOP.

[Jade Fox]

1. God I'm sick of these people...nt

[ismnotwasm]

2. Exactly

They can’t imagine a world outside of themselves

[Bev54]

3. And Trumpers are the most over represented by the media, I am sick

of their interviews on TV, comedy or not. Just sick of hearing them.

[TomSlick]

4. Jessica, just give up.

There is no reason for you to vote. You should say home and feel persecuted.

Tell all your friends and relations they should not vote.

[JoanofArgh]

5. I think Fox News , which is probably all they ever watch, has contributed to this.

[stopdiggin]

6. granted, that's pretty 'low information'

but, puttin' in context - ain't nearly as stupid as Jewish space lasers - or litter boxes in public school restrooms ...

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[RAB910]

7. This is how the right-wing propaganda machine manipulates people

[RANDYWILDMAN]

8. The Gop has been counting on the dumbing down of america

and it's working .

The television (the boob tube ) is helping
The death of the newspaper has helped
The near complete lack of civics being taught at school, helps a ton

The polarization of politics on the right (if you don't have any ideas, call them names and fight with wedge issues)

The power elite and their pooling of dark money in politics

These have turned all these idiots like this idiot into low information voters who either vote on a wedge issue or vote with their idiot neighbors.....

Fuck them all, the senate is a slave construct and needs a major overhaul so it actually matched the makeup of the country!!!!

[central scrutinizer]

9. Exactly: Iowa and New Hampshire

Have carved out a grossly oversized niche in the process and the press perpetuates it.

[Marthe48]

10. I had a thought

can you imagine if f news interviewed Dems and quoted Dems the way any news outlets interview r's and quote r's? There is no media outlet that is an exclusive purview of Dems. But there is an outlet that is all r's all the time.